I’ll admit, like a lot of folk I overlooked this game at first, the single player was slow, controls were a bit wonky at first, all in all it was something of a chore.

Again, AT FIRST.

Once you understood the control and the combat, you started having a lot of fun, and better still, the online component made this game really last. Admittedly, I need a story with my online, otherwise I tend to loose interested, but in this instance I just made my own and ran with it. At the time I only had two friends that really played it at all, and I think for their birthdays I ended up getting them copies of it just to have folk to play with, but once they were in it (They, like I, were hard core Mechwarrior and Heavy Gear players) they loved it.

Being only three, we ended up doing a little kill team set of tactics. I was the speed demon, running out to bait, they were the hammer and anvil, I’d run out and harass the hell out of them, tiny little guns or mines/grenades, then run back and let my buds hammer them into the DIRT with AT volleys.

Man I miss good mech games…here’s hoping that the new Heavy Gear is done right…it better be…or Joe won’t be the only guy on a plane…